Buddy Bell

1972–1989 · 18 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1951

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17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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SeasonTeamLgGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWAR
1972Cleveland IndiansAL1325054664911921193634295.255.310.363.6721.9
1973Cleveland IndiansAL15668963186169237145949477.268.325.393.7183.6
1974Cleveland IndiansAL1164714235111115174635291.262.322.352.6742.3
1975Cleveland IndiansAL15361955366150204105951726.271.332.376.7082.8
1976Cleveland IndiansAL1596616047517026276044493.281.329.366.6952.3
1977Cleveland IndiansAL12953847964140234116445631.292.351.426.7773.1
1978Cleveland IndiansAL1426065567115727866239431.282.328.392.7204.3
1979GGTexas RangersAL162720670892004231810130455.299.327.451.7785.0
1980GGTexas RangersAL12953449076161244178340393.329.379.498.8776.5
1981GGTexas RangersAL9741536044106161106442303.294.364.428.7924.9
1982GGTexas RangersAL14861453762159272136770505.296.376.426.8037.2
1983GGTexas RangersAL15667861875171353146650483.277.332.411.7434.4
1984GGSSTexas RangersAL14863055388174365118363542.315.382.458.8406.5
1985Texas RangersAL15163556061128285106867483.229.309.350.6591.1
1986Cincinnati RedsNL15565556889158293207573492.278.362.445.8073.8
1987Cincinnati RedsNL14359752274148192177071394.284.369.425.7942.2
1988Houston AstrosNL95352323277810174026321.241.295.344.639-0.2
1989Texas RangersAL34908241540037100.183.247.232.479-0.5
Career18 seasons24051000989951151251442556201110683677655.279.343.406.74961.1

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

Any shaded cell or chip will explain itself. Point at one, or tab to it and it opens on focus, and it names the league, the season and the statistic in full. On a touchscreen, tap it once to open and once more to close.

Not every award existed yet. This database has Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League), NL (National League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.